I'm using Office 2013 Pro Plus SP1 (volume license) on a Windows 7 Pro machine [both are 32 bit]. While I have Server 2003, it's configured to work with Windows 7 and Office 2013 Group Policy templates. I use RSAT on a Win 7 computer to create/manage the Group Policies.
Since we're not using Office 365, I'm trying to block some of those features, as well as disabling the Office Start screens.
Thinking that SP1 might be the problem, I downloaded the group policy templates for SP1 and copied them to the server.
If I create a policy (Office_2013_settings), with a few settings, like "Block singing into Office". In Group Policy, I disabled the Computer Configuration, leaving the User Configuration enabled. If I force group policy on the target computer and look at RSOP, I see the computer configuration settings disabled, but nothing for the user configuration, although it's enabled in the policy.
If I put a junk policy entry on the computer configuration and enable both policies on the backend, force group policy on the computer, and look at RSOP, under computer configuration, I see the Office_2013_settings policy, but the policy still doesn't appear
in the user configuration. If I scroll to the bottom of the file, where I can see other Administrative templates and their settings, my Office_2013_settings aren't visible.